Caravan migrants break Guatemala border fence, rush Mexico

[oberliner]

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (AP) — Migrants traveling in a mass caravan burst through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory on Friday, defying Mexican authorities’ entreaties for an orderly crossing and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation.

On the Mexican side of a border bridge, they were met by a phalanx of police with riot shields. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated.

The gates were closed again, and police used a loudspeaker to address the masses, saying, “We need you to stop the aggression.”

Mexican federal police chief Manelich Castilla, speaking from the border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, told Foro TV that his forces achieved their main objective of preventing a violent breach by the 3,000-plus migrants. In a separate interview with Milenio television, he accused people not part of the caravan of attacking police with firecrackers and rocks.

https://www.apnews.com/d52af53fc55b49cdbd320df9a19ff626

[underpants]

1. This is "organized" you know

I heard this on talk radio today. Mentioned several times that "this is organized" "whoever organized it..." etc. oh and it's all timed to get here right before the midterms. - expect this to be another wild rightwing talking point.

[oberliner]

2. Organized by whom?

[underpants]

3. The listener fills in the blanks

Soros
PELOSI!
Who the hell knows?

[oberliner]

4. Gotcha

Some of those conspiracy theories are really out there.

[Autumn]

23. By Democrats is what one orange anus is saying.

[roamer65]

9. Yeah, they organized it.

Smells like Repuke dirty trickster money at work.

Use some dark money to get an election time migrant issue going.

[lunamagica]

21. Please, think about the absurdity of your claims

[malaise]

11. That simplea

Organized as the Hillary emails back in 2016
Not buying this shit

[underpants]

12. Of course it's bullshit

Well it WAS organized in some way but the implication here is that it's that dark oh so powerful liberal cabal who were able to organize people hundreds of miles away in another country and all these people just said "Okay. Sure. I'll pick up everything and go on a dangerous trip just to make you happy"

[ChazII]

5. k&r n/t

[spanone]

6. they are REFUGEES.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yes, it's not a "caravan." It's an exodus...

[roamer65]

8. Just wait 20 years and see how many are fleeing climate change.

This will be a mere blip compared to it.

[oberliner]

16. Scary thought

[Amishman]

17. Maybe that is the real reason they want a wall

Not for what happens now but for after everything goes to shit

[roamer65]

24. Bingo.

But a wall won’t stop it. They will come by land, sea and air. Millions of them.

Eventually Canada and the northern states will have to deal with even refugees from the Southern states as they go underwater.

[NickB79]

20. It's already happening

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-07-15/climate-change-contributing-migration-central-american-refugees

As immigration issues along the US southern border continue to roil the country, one driving force of migration from troubled Central American countries has received relatively little notice: climate change.

Author and journalist Todd Miller, who has written a new book called, "Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security," says climate change is a key factor forcing families to flee from Central America and Mexico — and deadly droughts, hurricanes, floods and mudslides are projected to intensify further in the region as global warming increases, which will hit small farmers especially hard.

Frankly, I've given up hope on us not militarizing the border due to this. I look at European nations, far more liberal than us, rapidly swinging right and clamping down their borders due to the stream of Middle Eastern refugees coming in. If they can't be compassionate enough to take in those people, how will we do so?

In 20 years I wouldn't be surprised if we had full-on military partols along the border, with both Democrats and Republicans in support, as millions try to move north.

[roamer65]

25. When all the ice melts...

https://m.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. tRump states he doesn't want the refugees here because

"there are bad people in there".

Hell...has he looked at his own administration lately?

[oberliner]

15. Despicable comments from Trump, as usual

These migrants are fleeing from the bad people.

[pwb]

13. Looks like a Putin move at election time.

.

[oberliner]

14. Why do you say that?

[pwb]

19. Because it causes division among American voters.

The scene knocking down the gate fires up the pukes illegal aliens lie. I see desperate people wanting freedom. The pukes see lawlessness. That's right out of Putin's playbook. Divide at every opportunity. That's why. Peace.

[Amishman]

18. Sure fire way to get deplorables to vote

Play that footage on Fox news and fire up all the anti illegal immigrant sentiment all over again

[lunamagica]

22. How did he do it?

[mr_lebowski]

26. Why, out of curiosity, would it be a 'Guatemalan Border Fence', not a Mexican one?

Guatemala is a prison now?

[oberliner]

27. Good question

The AP article uses that language, but I don't know the reason.